Tom Hall

Tom Hall is a family lawyer in West Los Angeles. He is from Boston, and was raised in Friends Meeting at Cambridge (Quakers) to think that religion was a progressive force. During the Vietnam War, he organized draft counseling centers and worked with groups training people in techniques for disciplined nonviolent demonstrating. After the war, he became just another yuppie working to make a comfortable life. The Bush administration shocked him back into social concerns. Tom can be reached at ProgBlog@aol.com

ach week, LA Progressive’s editors pick what they regard as a particularly insightful comment from one of our readers, both to draw attention to one particular reader’s thoughts and to encourage more readers to weigh in with their opinions. This week’s pithy “Feedback Friday” response comes from Tom Hall, who commented on the article by Sharon […]

Tom Hall: Less than 48 hours after pulling out of the June 12 summit, the Donald was begging North Korea to put it back on track. The bankrupt dictator of a resource-free, starving nation was leading the dear leader of the U.S. around like a bull with a ring in its nose.

Tom Hall: The corporate “liberal media” focus on the Federal cabinet-level shenanigans also helps the corporate media agenda of distracting attention from other problems and opportunities. The missed opportunities problem is more important than the ignored problems.

Tom Hall: If there is a rising tide of progressive Latino voters, perhaps it is because they feel unrepresented by the entrenched pols, who assume that they will get certain votes, regardless of how they govern.

With only brothel owners to deal with financial arrangements with the police to keep whiny, complaining ‘girls’ in line, politicians can rest assured of price stability and careful matching of each politician’s predilections with the right ‘girls’.

Tillerson was groomed to believe in the government guaranteed privilege of the corporate wealthy, without need for particular intelligence, and unquestioning of the assumptions of colonial capitalism and corporate management.

Tom Hall: Black Panther repeats sexist tropes about the visual presentation of women while giving them much more substance in the film’s society than is common in sci fi. Progress. Enough? No. But more than a lot of other “Hollywood” fare provides.

Tom Hall: In the sunshine that was nurturing a young Richard Nixon, and turning Ronald Reagan against his co-workers, Graham had a conversion experience. He signed on for a career of explaining why the bible, and “christianity” meant defending the status quo.

The Middle East

David A. Love: Israel’s Ministry of Strategic Affairs works with front groups such as the Israel Project and the Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD) to spy on US citizens who support Palestinian rights and smear them as anti-Semites, in a covert campaign that smacks of McCarthyism and Islamophobia.